1. Charles Alexander Clouser was born on June 28,1963 and is an American keyboardist, composer, record producer, and remixer.
18 Facts About Charlie Clouser
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Charlie Clouser worked with Trent Reznor for Nine Inch Nails from 1994 to 2000, and is a composer for film and television; among his credits are the score for the Saw franchise and American Horror Story.
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Charlie Clouser was nominated for two Grammy Awards for Best Metal Performance in 1997.
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Charlie Clouser attended Middletown High School in Pennsylvania and graduated from Hanover High School in 1981.
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Charlie Clouser is a graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts; he earned a degree in electronic music in 1985.
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Charlie Clouser co-worked with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails for several projects.
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Charlie Clouser was a member of the band 9 Ways to Sunday, which released a self-titled album in 1990.
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Charlie Clouser has remixed artists such as Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, White Zombie, Rammstein and Meat Beat Manifesto.
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Charlie Clouser created one of FirstCom music's master series discs, only sold for commercial use, in the late 1990s.
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Two songs programmed by Charlie Clouser were nominated for Grammy Awards in 1997: White Zombie's "I'm Your Boogie Man" and Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper's "Hands of Death ", the latter of which Charlie Clouser co-wrote and mixed.
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Charlie Clouser worked with Trent Reznor on the soundtrack of Natural Born Killers, helping record and produce a new version of "Something I Can Never Have," the original version of which appeared on Nine Inch Nails' 1989 album Pretty Hate Machine.
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In 2001, Charlie Clouser formed the supergroup Revenge of the Triads with Jason Slater and Troy Van Leeuwen, although they later disbanded in 2002 without releasing any material.
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Charlie Clouser provided the live synth for Alec Empire's "Intelligence And Sacrifice" tour in 2001.
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Charlie Clouser appears in the Moog documentary about electronic-music pioneer Robert Moog and composed the song "I Am a Spaceman" for the original soundtrack of that movie.
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Charlie Clouser has worked as a film and television composer, scoring the entire Saw series of films.
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Charlie Clouser was the "top choice" for scoring the first film of the series, as director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell are both Nine Inch Nails fans and they used remixes of the band's songs for the temp score.
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Charlie Clouser married his long-time girlfriend, photographer and model Zoe Wiseman, in the summer of 2007.
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Charlie Clouser has performed on releases with a variety of other artists and bands.